Most political leaders now adays are detested by their citizens, this thread had NOTHING to do with the prime minister or his standing with the citizens, but what a low class embarassment Obama is, and that he and his appointments do not even know how to follow guidelines.

You can only be embarrassed from within, hes not one of us and hes not an American. Even if you lose badly at something and whoever beat you 'embarrasses you' so to speak, you are embarrassed because of your own shortfall and failure to reach expectation, not by anything they did. You cannot be embarrassed by anything that someone who is none of your doing and you have connection with does, especially when you are totally out of the loop of whatever that thing is. Therefore, Obomination cannot embarrass America, the real America. Our only embarrassment in the matter is our own failure to stop him from becoming what he has. He in now way even represents America, as far as I'm concerned.

Well the queen is a figure head position and the Prime Minister has more authority than the queen, and he is considered a visiting head of state.....check the way the diplomatic service lists him, which is why I stated what I did.

Well the queen is a figure head position and the Prime Minister has more authority than the queen, and he is considered a visiting head of state.....check the way the diplomatic service lists him, which is why I stated what I did.

Well the queen is a figure head position and the Prime Minister has more authority than the queen, and he is considered a visiting head of state.....check the way the diplomatic service lists him, which is why I stated what I did.

But the real problem is the head of state we have on our side

I think you are showing unnecessary disrespect to the Queen.

Our National Anthem is God Save the Queen, not God Save the Prime Minister.

The real problem is probably neither head of state. But if you lived in the UK you would probably be more concerned about the British one.

I was always of the impression that the Queen, Queen Elizabeth, was a figurehead, but now I'm not all that sure. I think this is misinformation that has been out there so long, we all take it for granted it's true. The Governor General, the representative of the Queen, shut down the Canadian parliament. This doesn't sound like the Queen is merely a figurehead. Queen ELIZABETH II is officially the Chief of State in Canada(since 6 February 1952); represented by Governor General Michaelle JEAN (since 27 September 2005)

Queen Elizebeth II is the Head of State of the UK, Canada, New Zealand the Falklands and Australia plus some other pieces of land.

Canadian PM wins suspension of Parliament
Thu Dec 4, 2008 6:16pm EST

Governor General Michaelle Jean -- the representative of Queen Elizabeth, Canada's head of state -- agreed to Harper's request to shut down Parliament until Jan 26. Parliament was reconvened just weeks ago after the October 14 election.
Harper's request for suspension was unprecedented. No prime minister had asked for Parliament to be suspended to avoid a confidence vote in the House of Commons.

Procedures for the dissolution of Parliament and the calling of an election

Dissolution terminates a Parliament and is followed by a general election, the date of which is set by the governor general in council, that is, the governor general acting on the advice of the prime minister. The Constitution Act, 1982 stipulates that Parliament must sit at least once every 12 months. Dissolution abolishes all pending legislation and ends further committee activity.
Dissolution of Parliament takes place when the governor general issues a proclamation on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen under the Great Seal of Canada.Background

The power to dissolve Parliament is a royal prerogative that the governor general exercises personally. The Governor General retains certain constitutional discretion whether to accept the advice of the Prime Minister to dissolve Parliament.

General elections are to be held on the third Monday in October in the fourth calendar year following the last general election (in accordance with the Canada Elections Act S.C. 2007, c. 10, s. 1), unless the government loses the confidence of the House of Commons prior to that date.

The Queen is a figurehead, I do not think this thread is political I personally have no time for Gordon Brown but Obama did show his "classy" side . You are right about the Queen to a point she can dissolve parliament and also must sign all acts which are passed through it. But back to Stuart times a bill went through which meant she can do this in name only meaning if she did such action here (as in the UK I don't know about our other provinces) then she can be overruled so she is a figurehead. The whole thing disheartens me as a dual British/American citizen.
But back to the main topic.